New Hampshire Statesman And State Journal

SINGULAR ACCIDENT. On Friday, the 20th ult. as Miss Van Buren, a young lady of the Valentine, was combing her hair in the factory of Baldwin, she brought it in contact with one of the horizontal iron shafts which makes 53 revolutions the minute. This shaft is square, two and a half inches in diameter, and is placed about 17 inches from the upper floor. The young lady was standing nearly under it, facing from it; as she was tossing back her hair, it caught fast, and she found herself drawn up towards it with the velocity of lightning.

With an extraordinary presence of mind, she grasped the shaft with her hands, at the same time making a violent effort to place her feet upon it, in order that by revolving with it she might escape a dislocation of the neck. She succeeded in clinging to the shaft during two or three revolutions but its velocity was such as at length to break her hold, and she was projected a distance of 8 or 10 feet from it, leaving her entire scalp from the extremity of the eyelids to the third vertebra of the neck, fast to the shaft and revolving with it. She arose immediately from the floor and proceeded to stop one of the looms which she tended while the overseer stopped the wheel. Drs Miller and Philip were immediately called, the scalp was replaced upon her head and adjusted, and the patient returned to her room. She is at present in a comfortable condition, and her physicians state, that every symptom indicates a firm re-union of the parts and a speedy recovery of health.

Columbia N. Y. Sentinel.